Pamphilius zhelochovtsevi zhelochovtsevi Beneš, 1974

(Figs 135, 136) (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11405343)

Pamphilius zhelochovtsevi Beneš, 1974: 306, 313; Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev, 1995: 398.

Pamphilius zhelochovtsevi zhelochovtsevi: Shinohara, 1993: 118; Shinohara & Lee, 1997: 218; Shinohara, 2002b: 425; Shinohara & Lelej, 2007: 935, 941; Taeger et al., 2010: 91; Sundukov & Lelej, 2012: 110; Sundukov, 2017: 106; Lee et al., 2019: 11.

Material examined. Thirty-one specimens, including the type series, all from the Russian Far East and Korea (Beneš 1974; Shinohara 1993; Shinohara & Lee 1997).

Distribution. Russia (Primorskij Kraj), South Korea.

Host plant. Unknown.

Remarks. This species was described from Primorskij Kraj by Beneš (1974) and later recorded from Korea by Shinohara (1993), who also described a Japanese subspecies, P. zhelochovtsevi nipponicus Shinohara, 1993, from Honshu. Sundukov (2015) newly recorded P. zhelochovtsevi nipponicus from Kunashiri and Shikotan Islands and noted “Larvae on Rosa (Shinohara 1993) ” (original in Russian). Pamphilius zhelochovtsevi nipponicus has been recorded only from Honshu, not in Hokkaido, and the nominotypical subspecies is distributed in Primorskij Kraj and Korea (Shinohara 1993). The occurrence of this species (and subspecies) in southern Kuriles is not likely and needs confirmation. Sundukov’s (2015) host record is inexplicable and erroneous because Shinohara (1993) never mentioned the host plant of P. zhelochovtsevi nipponicus, which is still unknown.

Molecular data were available only for Japanese specimens of P. zhelochovtsevi nipponicus (two COI sequences and one NaK sequence). In the COI analysis, the nearest neighbour was P. sulphureipes sulphureipes, diverging by a minimum of 3.4%, while in the NaK analysis, the nearest neighbour was P. coreanus, with the minimum distance of 1.5%. Pamphilius zhelochovtsevi is a member of the P. sulphureipes group (Shinohara 1993), which was retrieved as monophyletic with 100% UFBoot supports in our COI and NaK analyses (Figs 144, 158).